vine maple - Ohanapecosh River Valley, Mount Rainier National Park
©2002 Ed Book

Nikon 990 digital capture

six years ago, I was still using film capture as the main medium for recording my images because high resolution digital capture was still the promise of the future. I did, however carry a small pocketable 'pocket pal' digital camera for spontaneous image recording but not for serious work. I have found over the years since then that many of those early digital captures have been requested for license purchase. Almost all of my 'pocket pal' camera image exposure has been almost entirely through this journal while the vast majority of my work was getting it's targeted exposure from personal marketing.
The addition of the Canon G9 changed that with images with market quality good enough for stock submissions.

Not to say that none of those early digital captures didn't make it to the big time. I've successfully marketed many of them and even for magazine and book covers. I had to put a lot of post capture processing into them though to minimize the effects of capture noise and upsizing artifact reduction.

I haven't stopped marketing film captures by a long shot though as I still have 60-100 thousand transparencies waiting for their turn in the film scanner.

Peace

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